Elizabeth Smart

They were actually going to kidnap seven young girls and we were all going to become his seven young wives.

I mean, we could go down that rabbit hole, but...

For time's sake, they decided that, you know, we really couldn't stay in Utah through the winter.

We just couldn't survive the winter and the snow and the cold.

And so we needed to go somewhere warm.

And that had the added bonus of finding someone new to kidnap.

And so they had gone to the library to look at maps to find somewhere to go.

And that's where we were there.

That's where they... I say we.

Yeah.

I didn't decide anything, where my captors decided to take me to Southern California.

And after that, I mean, he took me back up to the hidden campsite and I was not, I, he did not bring me back down to Salt Lake until the day we left.

And then once even we went to San Diego, he took me.

They found a new, like it was like a dried riverbed.

And he hid me there.

And I was only let out, I mean, maybe once a week, maybe once every other week.

And it was always with their, I mean, I was never let alone.

I was never left alone ever during my entire nine months.

I mean, there was always one of them with me, if not both of them.

You know, we obviously talked a lot about like the psychological warfare and the reasons you felt like even in a public place with an FBI agent standing in front of you, the reason that you didn't say anything or felt you couldn't say anything.